The Los Angeles Marathon is underway, with more than 24,000 athletes expected to participate. They'll be racing a 26.2-mile "Stadium to the Sea" route which begins at Dodger Stadium and ends in Santa Monica. 📷: @patrickfallon

Donald Trump arrived in California today for the first time since becoming president. Earlier in the day, he toured border wall prototypes in San Diego and stated his preference for a see-through wall. Check out our Insta Story for more on Trump's visit. 📷: AP/ Evan Vucci

Los Angeles is honoring “braceros” with a 19-foot monument. Decades ago, the U.S. welcomed more than 1 million Mexican nationals across the border. Through an agreement between the U.S. and Mexican governments, the temporary workers, known as braceros, came under a program to help fill labor shortages during and after World War II.

Almost 80 years after the Mexican guest worker program was implemented, and in the middle of a tense standoff between California and the Trump administration over illegal immigration, Los Angeles is honoring these workers with a statue that will be the centerpiece of a new plaza near Olvera Street. "It is great to see we're establishing not only the bracero statue, but also the plaza to recognize diversity, to respect diversity in a time that we're being attacked by our president," said Councilman Jose Huizar. "When our president calls many of these Mexican immigrants thieves, rapists, murderers and says they're not sending their best, let us remind him that many braceros came here and worked hard and built this country.” 📷: @alseib

Of course officer Joe Cirrito was tired, but there was no turning back. "One foot in front of the other," he told himself as he dressed Saturday morning in full tactical gear and resumed his 100-mile run from an empty field south of Bakersfield to Los Angeles.

After some soup and oatmeal, he felt as though he had the downtown L.A. police memorial in his sights. Then he heard the news. For the sadness and grief, there was also anger, and with the anger came a surge of adrenaline.

As he ran, he learned of the death of one more. Another police officer, 30-year-old Greggory Casillas, had been killed hours earlier while chasing a suspect into an apartment building in Pomona. Casillas' partner was wounded as he tried to pull the rookie to safety. "All of us are a little crazy," he said in an interview before starting out, "but there is a bigger cause for this. It's bigger than me. It's bigger than the LAPD. We're talking about those who have given the ultimate sacrifice, and this is the least I can do. I can run."I can't sing, but I can run.” 📷: @mariaalejandraphotography

Artist Ventiko made headlines after United Airlines refused to let her bring Dexter, her peacock, aboard as a support animal, even after she purchased him a seat. Their story set off a debate about emotional support animals: Where is the line? Who gets to draw it?

How could a person develop such a deep emotional bond with a peacock? Like so many unconventional relationships, it started with an ad on Craigslist. Check out the link in our bio for the full story 📷: @katiefalkenberg

Hundred demonstrators took over Main Street near City Hall to protest a vending proposal that they say favors businesses over local vendors. The group shouted "Si Se Puede" and carried signs that read "Opportunity, Dignity and Safety.” The Los Angeles City Council is crafting new rules for the thousands of unlicensed street vendors who sell fruit, clothing and CDs on the city's sidewalks.

As part of those rules, lawmakers are considering requiring vendors get permission from neighboring properties to sell their goods. Brick-and-mortar businesses say they are worried about how legalizing vending will affect them, and cite concerns about trash, blocked walkways and what they see as unfair competition from vendors.

Police arrested seven people who refused to leave after a dispersal order. 📷: @pixtakerirfan

McDonald’s is turning a few heads today. The McDonald’s in Lynwood, a franchise owned by Patricia Williams and her daughters, flipped the iconic golden arches upside down in celebration of International Women’s Day. 📷: @jlcvisuals

Women across Europe and Asia marked #InternationalWomensDay by demanding equality, respect and empowerment. Protesters in Spain launched a 24-hour strike and demonstrators filled the streets of Manila, Seoul and New Delhi. 📷: Associated Press

They jump when the sun returns and the masses step outside, reminding them of their misery. They jump during financial crises and in the early spring, when Japanese schools open and the pressures of life converge.

Yukio Shige's routine, though, is the same regardless of the weather.Nearly every day, he clambers across the high basalt columns of the Tojinbo cliffs, the Sea of Japan thrashing 80 feet below. He peers into binoculars, seeking hunched figures on distant rocks, ready to talk them down.

In 15 years, he's walked 609 people back from the edge.

Japan's suicide rate is among the highest in the developed world. In 2016, there were 17.3 suicides for every 100,000 people, second only to South Korea among major industrialized nations. "The way I save people, it's like I'm seeing a friend," said Shige, 73, a retired policeman with a floppy fishing hat and a gentle demeanor. "It's not exciting or anything. I'm like, 'Hey, how are you doing?' These people are asking for help. They're just waiting for someone to speak with them." 📷: Jonathan Kaiman

After 63 years, the downtown L.A. bookstore is closing its doors. 📚 Leonard Bernstein didn’t have to dream of traveling: The world came to him.

There was former CIA director William Casey, researching the American Revolution. Robert Joffrey once dropped in looking for books on ballet. Phyllis Lambert escaped her job restoring the Biltmore in the quiet of his shelves, and Marcus Crahan, coroner for L.A. County, perused the collection for cookbooks.

Jimmy Carter, Caroline Kennedy, Sting, Dustin Hoffman, Jodie Foster and Matt Groening had visited, and then there was the bike messenger with the holes in his shoes and the dishwasher who used books to prop up his computer at home.

Bernstein offered to sell Caravan to his children. Give me a quarter, he told them, and it’s yours. But they turned him down. “We can’t do what you do. You’ve got the mustache,” they said. “Maybe I’m a fool for holding onto the past,” the owner said, “but that’s what’s guided me. What would Mom do? What would Dad do? Now I defer to a younger generation.” 📷: @pixtakerirfan

The big winner at the 90th Academy Awards? It wasn’t “Shape of Water” or Guillermo del Toro. It was Mark Bridges, who not only went home with an Oscar for costume design, but was also the winner of the jet ski for shortest acceptance speech. 📷: @robgauthier / LA Times

Frances McDormand asked all the women nominees at the Oscars to stand up during her acceptance speech after winning the award for leading actress. “Look around, ladies and gentlemen, because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed,” she said. 📷:@robgauthier/ LA Times

Guillermo del Toro wore a pocket square custom printed with the water-inspired wallpaper pattern from his film, “The Shape of Water.” He won the Oscar for directing, and “Shape of Water” was named best picture. 📷: Chris Pizzello/AP